Giveaway: 1000 Days of Drawing

I've never met another drawing madman like Chris Piascik. His sharpie must never leave his hand. On DA alone we've featured his work countless times and now again, for a compilation of one-thousand of his drawings. Every day, for many, many days now Chris has doodled something in the category of music, politics, bikes, characters, complaints, quotes or plain old improvised doodles.

I am going to give one of you this book. All you have to do is leave a comment below with something that you obsess over, like Chris obsesses over drawing. Share your addiction with the rest of us, and your name gets put in the hat. We'll randomly choose one of you in seven days. Comments close (end of day) July 16th, we'll draw the name the following day. Go on now, play along.

On a side note: Chris is awesome. I mean that. He's not just great at drawing, he is super kind and makes himself quite available to the community. He's been a guest writer at DA, participates in numerous zines and collaborations and was published in our first coloring book and soon to be second volume too. Regardless of the outcome of this giveaway, I highly recommend you get your hands on this book. Support this truly outstanding talent, and buy his self-published book here.

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I obsess over 'Images.' Where they come from, where they go when they aren't being remembered. How we share them...how we can change them...how they form our memory and our imagination. How they come when we read, hear a song or watch a movie. How Images can travel through time, and give you time....and what happens to the ones we dream. xx

I obsess over so many things artsy, but of late, my major obsessions are paper-cuttings, traditional print methods, hand drawn anything, and reading about people's amazing inspiration and idea-conception for projects.

waaahhhh! I am OBSESSED about being OBSESSED about DRAWING!!!!! :DD I can't seem to get enough of art and i don't think I ever will! :D This obsession of mine often traps me between doing school work or doing what I want! :D

I obsess over WASHI TAPE. I love the colorful, japanese masking tape to enhance drawings and collages in my art journals. I daydream about starting my own washi tape company because some of the designs are too cutesy and I want something more edgy :)

I am also obsessed with drawing! I started The Doodle Swap Project a few years ago and have been swapping doodles with folks for quite some time now! I am also obsessed with baby animals and zombies ;) http://doodleswap.blogspot.com/

I obsess over teddy bears-- from seeing them to owning them to painting them. I just can't leave an abandoned one alone and think about how amazing it'd look in a future painting for weeks to follow. I also obsess over cows and my newest obsession is (don't laugh!) the beautiful tiny pictures on Magic cards-- I just want to keep all the beautiful ones and look at them all day!!

I obsess over doodling, posca pens, 60s psychedelic music, oddities (hairy fish, shrunken skulls, etc) and shoes! Though my current new obsession is finding myself a new smock to paint in...I'm also somewhat obsesses with getting my hands on Chris's book now!! :)

Whenever i walk through the concrete jungle, i always have big jiffy eco markers in my bag. I am COMPLETELY obsessed over drawing on any surface i see that isnt immediatly visible to the public. sides of buildings, giving the crosswalk sign men something to carry, and a ha of course. Right now im working on a large mural in an alleyway, using a marker so far.

I obsess over tshirt cutting!!!! I LOVE Adam Saaks and taking old shirts and making them cute again and stealing shirts from my brother and boyfriend and cutting them down to size and i cant wait to make a business out of it so all day everyday i can get paid for what i love to do its just SO MUCH FUN.

I'm obsessed with weird stuff. Weird stuff is awesome. I like weird, crazy, fun and insane things. It could be illustrations, product design, graffiti or everyday things like seeing faces in inanimate objects! Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me, my mind told me I saw an astronought the other day, when in fact it was our receptionist. But I digress, I obsess over innovative creativity. It inspires me to do great things.

I think I realized I'm obsessed with learning? lol I try to read as much as I can about the things that interest me (health, art, illustration, digital design, fashion, food). The downside to this may be that I do a lot of reading but not a lot of action.

I am currently obsessing on organizing my time and schedule. It's crazy! Be it on post-it, on my phone and even on my planner. I have to be sure I don't forget anything important for the week. Drawing things that are also associated with it also helps a lot!

Sketchbooks and my fear of 'ruining' them. Though am getting better at that... and can't stop buying them. Also - Art & Craft books can't stop obsessing over them and sneaking them into the house - some women do it with clothes I do it with books. If my partner asks I'll say "Oh that? Had it ages!"

I have a severe, and enjoyable obsession with the number 5. I have ALWAYS given 5 kisses to my kids at bedtime,that goes for my fiance too, I take pictures of 5 in interesting places i.e. elevator doors, signs,etc. Odd, but happy little thing I am.

I am obsessed with birds. I have been building up a journal over the past few months of my sightings and bird doodles, which has been really fun! I am a big fan of Matt Sewell's bird illustrations too, so much personality: http://mattsewell.co.uk/

i obsess over having things clean. if things aren't clean, then they need to be. they need to be this way, they need to be that way. wires need to be twist tied and put away from vision. papers need to be organized by shape, size and type of use. i use tiles as grids to they can align with each other. fridge must be organized: bottles shall be arranged from shortest to tallest, ensuring viewability upon opening door. electronics with electronics, tools and hardware with tools and hardware, similar things with similar things, ensuring the smallest portion of miscellaneous, which go towards future garage sales.

oh and i love chris, been a huge fan of him :) ill buy his book (again) still even if i get it for freeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I'm obsessed with hoarding useless crap and trying to make something useful out of it, like used paper and receipts and scrap wood. I actually upcycled shopping bags into backpacks and tote bags for my 3D final.

I obsess over magical everything. Fairy wings, making crowns, making wands, harry potter, beautiful places that have a hint of magic, glitterized life.. I LOVE GLITTER. I also love rainbow colored everything. My rainbow pinterest board is EPIC. Check it out :-)

I obsess about many things, but especially scribbling, writing in different handwriting on a post-it, origami (paper cranes) and being perfect and meticulous in everything I do. When I draw, it feels like time freezes. I draw and I just can't seem to be able to stop. I tell myself, there's always something to add on, until I get the result I want.

Anyways, this book looks amazing and beautiful. Keep up the good work Chris!

I obsess over stabilo pens! Every color! I need to know where each one is, I have a mental record of each place where I used them for the last time every time. When any pen dies it takes a piece of me with it!

I obsess over writing things down. I ALWAYS have a notebook (or at least a piece of paper) and a pen handy. I take notes for nearly every thought that enters my brain. Because I do not want to forget anything.

I obsess over seeing everything, I always like to look around for new inspirations, and keep drawing and writing, I love to look for new shapes, shadows, people, I absolutely love sharing ideas, and knowing what other people are up to.

I obsess with the alphabet. I love to use the alphabet to ensure I've found every single option of whatever I'm investigating at the time. I even use it to distract me at the dentist when I might try to think of a vegetable for every letter of the alphabet. it's not as easy as you would think!

empty walls, i can seem to let them be empty,hence doodling on empty white walls or anything bare and bleak is my obsession.other than that, i have an obsession about stacking up plates n what not after i finish a meal,special the bunchas at korean restaurants :)

I constantly obsess over drawing something correct first time, and if it doesn't work the first few times its drawn I give up and start doing something else..
That and I obsess over finding my 'style' within illustration.

I'm obsessed with cliche's, old sayings and words that have more than one meaning. Then I like to draw them in the wrong context to highlight how unusual they are. You may not even think about it otherwise. Bear with me.

I'm obsessed with being obsessed about drawing! I see so many talented people around me who spontaneously and freely pour drawings out into their sketchbooks! I'm obsessed with wanting to be like that, though it may or may not be for me! At least it makes me reach for a sketchbook more often! :)

My obsession....LIFE! That is living it- I feel the need to rescue people from boring mundane lives and introduce them to how much fun they could be having creating. Doodling during meetings is another obsession. I can retain so much more if the pen is moving then I do with the back of my eyelids which seems to happen if the hand is not active.

I obsess over printmaking, but lithography specifically! I love drawing with greasy crayons, I love graining my stone and feeling the texture go from coarse to smooth, I love rubbing it up with gum arabic, etching, and I love pulling a print for the first time and having it come out better than expected.

I obsess over Sharpes. I have boxes of them. And in high school I had more of them then actual school supplies in my backpack (which was one thing you were't allowed to bring on campus)... My classwork would have nice boarders/frames. Somehow by the end of the day i'd end up with full sleeve artwork. Now, I draw shirt designs for that school using them. lol. Gift me Sharpesss !

I obsess over colourful shoes.... yes colourful shoes. any type, I dont mind but I seem to find more and more rediculous reasons to buy them like "oh these would be great 'teacher' shoes cause my art students love colour". rediculous I know.

i've got an relatively wide-spread obsession: with everything cute. i wouldn't want to live in a world without cuteness! =) be it cute doodles, cute grafitti, cute t-shirts, cute kitties,... no day shall pass without cute!

I am obsessed with reading little notes that have fallen on the ground from people's pockets. Hence, I am very familiar with what the local people buy from the grocery store and have found out that cheese, milk and bread are the most popular items on their shopping lists.

for me this book is kinda my obsession! Chris and his dailies have been a huge inspiration and drive behind my work and attitude. sure, I tend to procrastinate. but seeing chris's amazing style and attitude thru his work, it's all been a huge boost in my work and attitude. oh and I'm a fat kid at
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I've got to say, currently I am pretty obsessed with photography, especially photographing people. I love it! I love expressing people's relationships and preserving their memories for the future. Drawing/sketching is also a pretty big obsession and on that note I loooove drawing tools like pens and markers, ect, I could stand in the art store and just drool over all of it for ages *o*

This might be kinda random but.. I have a weird obsession for mermaids. I constantly draw humans with tails during classes. It's kinda embarrassing, knowing they don't exist. :( But still watching mermaid swim on youtube is enough for me. Haha. Here's proof of my obsession lol http://fav.me/d55admv